Ruth McEwen

Ruth Ann McEwen, CPA; Ph.D., Industrial Management, with a concentration in Accounting, Georgia Institute of Technology; Masters, Industrial Management, Georgia Institute of Technology; and B.S., Alabama A&M University. Dean McEwen serves as the Associate Dean of Accreditation and Administration and Professor of Accounting at Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. She has taught Financial Accounting at the Intermediate and Doctoral levels for more than 20 years. 

Author and co-author of numerous articles dealing with ethics and the usefulness of accounting information to the investment community, Dean McEwen has published in premier journals including The Accounting Review, Decision Sciences, Accounting Horizons, The CPA Journal, The International Journal of Accounting, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Dean McEwen has presented practical applications of her research to numerous academic and practitioner groups. She also has presented to the FASB and the GASB a series of papers focusing on financial reporting and the usefulness of GAAP accounting information. Dean McEwen has also composed and assessed questions for the Uniform CPA Examination. Serving as a consultant to the FASB, Dean McEwen has been deeply involved with its project to codify Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. A member of Beta Gamma Sigma, she has received such honors as the 2001 Dean's Recognition Award for Research and the 2002 Graduate Student Association's Professor of the Year. She is a certified Medical Technologist, ASCP, and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Georgia.